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oh yeah...名無し said:I recommend you read the Wartime Journals of Charles A. Lindbergh, or you can call him a liar even without reading the book.
DUO said:while none of this was true for the Japanese counterpart that were caught by the Allies.
Arc Light said:Are you kidding? You haven't read the right history book dude...
There was DOCUMENTED proof that there was pure, unbridled, hatred between the US Marines And Japanese during WW2. I'm not talking about petty executions of prisoners, I'm talking about vengeance for Bataan, and other POW deathcamps. Things like tying POWs up in a line on the ground and running over their legs with a tank, or burning them alive with fuel from flamethrowers...anything they did to us, we did to them even worse. But, on the flip side of that, sometimes a GI/Marine was sympathetic to a Japanese POW, by either offering him food, or even just a cigarrette.
Arc Light said:Looking back, I believe that Japan has given back to the world many times over what the world has given to it.
Arc Light said:There was DOCUMENTED proof that there was pure, unbridled, hatred between the US Marines And Japanese during WW2...
名無し said:And it seems that their POW treatment of Russians during the Russo-Japanese War and Germans during WWI in Japan was rather nice.
Well seen!
I've heard a cultural anthropologist, Joseph Campbell, say something similar about the farmer/collectivist vs hunter/individualist link. From what I recall, he attributed individualism more to the northern European cultures which, presumably due to the weather and perhaps the soil(?), had a harder time with farming early on.That's funny because Japanese often say that their collectivism is due to the fact that their ancestors were farmers (vs hunters for Westerners), while in fact Japanese were the hunters till 3000 years after the Greeks and 1000 years after Scandinavians and Brits.
名無し said:And it seems that their POW treatment [of Russians?] during the Russo-Japanese War and WWI was rather nice.
SkankRabbit said:I think that all the real animosity towards Japanese soldiers at the time was provoked by their utter inhumanity towards both civilian populations and captured soldiers. Which was so different to the west窶冱 rules of (modern at least) warfare.
Many Americans would have wondered why they should show any mercy at all to a force that was itself so merciless and cruel.
The general alieness of the Japanese might also have helped there. I mean, for a GI from the rural backwaters, he窶囘 have never even seen an Asian, let alone a Japanese in the flesh, so it was a lot easier to dehumanise them, in the exact same way the Japanese dehumanised foreighners themselves.
This combined with propaganda, and their own negative experiences at their hands, would have made it very hard for an American to respect the Japanese as human beings when they were captured.
So, personally, I think that it was the Japanese attitude itself that provoked that hatred.
Found a page that has a paragraph,Golgo_13 said:[of Russians?]
And this is a thread related to the previous post.After the Japan-Russia War, the 6,000 Russian war prisoners were interred at Matsuyama where they received warm treatment and a cemetery was built for those who died at Matsuyama, as which a memorial is held in March of each year.
The MOFA page above also says...Golgo_13 said:Compared to how the Japanese POWs were treated by the Russians--long after WWII had ended. Many thousands of Japanese POWs died in forced labor camps in Siberia for 10 years after the Japanese surrender.
The sad story of Internment in Siberia: Sixty years ago the Soviet Union broke the Japan-USSR Neutrality Pact and entered the War, resulting in the internment of 600,000 Japanese people, amongst which 60,000 died in Siberia.
Wang said:Before the Japanese - Russian navy war in 1904-1905 the western people saw almost everything and everybody that was not western (European) as inferior and backwards.
The Japanese broke the myth that everything western is superior by defeating the Russians in 1904-1905. At that moment Japan successfully became the first Asian power in modern times to defeat a western power.
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Russia is not a Western Power, and besides during those times Russia was in no good condition at all.
JAPAN HAS GIVEN US VIDEO GAMES>>>>YAY!!!!!
also cars, to get home and play those video games....
Not to play Devils Advocate, per usual, but I think many many people have come to this conclusion irrespective of the Japanese.In my opinion one thing Japan has given the world, is a chance to understand and appreciate the shortness of beauty in one's life.